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Giancarlo Esposito

Born 1958-04-26

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad from 2009 to 2011 and its prequel series Better Call Saul from 2017 to 2022. He won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series twice for this role. He earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

His other television roles include federal agent Mike Giardello in the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix series Dear White People (2017–2021), Stan Edgar in the Amazon series The Boys (2019–present) and The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022), and Moff Gideon in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019–2023), the lattermost of which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also portrayed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem (2019–present), acted in the HBO drama series Westworld (2016), and starred in the Netflix television series Kaleidoscope (2023), The Gentlemen (2024), and The Residence (2025).

He is also known for his collaboration with Spike Lee, acting in several of his films, such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), and Malcolm X (1992). His other major films include Taps (1981), King of New York (1990), Bob Roberts (1992), Fresh (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Ali (2001), Monkeybone (2001), Last Holiday (2006), Rabbit Hole (2010), Okja (2017), Megalopolis (2024), MaXXXine (2024), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). He voiced Akela in the live-action remake of The Jungle Book (2016).

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Filmography 219

The Cat in the Hat

as Mr. Hoogeboom (voice)

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

as Detective Warren

Please Don't Feed the Children

The Electric State

as Colonel Bradbury / The Marshall

Captain America: Brave New World

as Mayor Cicero

Hollywood Black

as Teddy Knight, Esq.

as Gracián 'Gray' Parish

as Stanley Johnston (Uncle Stan)

Disney 100: Remember That

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

as Baxter Stockman (voice)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

as Granite (voice)

The Jennifer Hudson Show

as Beauty's Father

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

as Stan Edgar (voice)

as Self - "Gus Fring"

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Self - Guest

By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys

The Broken and the Bad

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

as The Grandfather

Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

as Self - Moff Gideon

as Archie Brubaker

as Lex Luthor (voice)

The Mandalorian

Godfather of Harlem

as Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

as Self - Guest

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Meerkat Stan Edgar (voice)

as Charlie Baudelaire

as Victor Goldsmith

The Nagano Tapes

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Miracle on 42nd Street

as Mason Washington

as Phantom Blot (voice)

as Frank Dawson

Dear White People

Better Call Saul Employee Training

as Gustavo Fring

as Congressman Frank McClaren

as Pastor Ramon Cruz

as Captain Powell

The Jungle Book

as Akela (voice)

The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare

Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

as Self (archive footage)

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Better Call Saul

as Oscar Christoph

I Did Not Forget You

The Game Awards

Batman: Assault on Arkham

as Black Spider / Eric Needham (voice)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Requiem for the Big East

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Pruit Normings

They Die by Dawn

as Andrés Pico

Blood River Crossing

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Haunting Of...

as Daramus Holiday

as Harvey Williams

Once Upon a Time

as Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror

as Father Heery

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

as Inspector Hollander

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

as Gordon Ramirez

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Gilbert Lawson

as Beau Hackman

as Alexander Moto

Chelsea on the Rocks

as James Lawson

as Roberto Vega

Racing Daylight

as Dwayne Burkhalter

as Parole Officer Hernandez

as Senator Dillings

as Robert Fuentes

as Detective Church

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Ghost Whisperer

as Richard Benoit

Back in the Day

as Benson Cooper

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

as Orlando Ramirez

Chupacabra Terror

as Detective Esposito

Doing Hard Time

as Captain Pierce

A Killer Within

5ive Days to Midnight

as J.C. Reynolds

as Reggie Archibald

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

as Darrell Washington

as Jesse Haslim

as Cassius Clay, Sr.

as Miguel Algarin

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Ambassador Theodore Kelefy

100 Centre Street

as Dr. Pembroke

Strong Medicine

as James 'Junior' Bell

Homicide: The Movie

as Mike Giardello

as Father Romero

as Dr. Lawrence Carver

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

as Chaz Villanueva

Where's Marlowe?

as Blind Man (uncredited)

as Lt. Thomas Peniston / Werewolf

as Reuben Escobar

Trouble on the Corner

Five Desperate Hours

as Joseph Grange

Nothing to Lose

as Charlie Dunt

as Ray McMurphy

as Henry Kunitz

The Tomorrow Man

as Jonathan Driscoll

as Arnold / Gordon Keller

Mylène Farmer: California

as Rich Man/Pimp

as Andrew Coffin

Waiting to Exhale

as David Matthews (uncredited)

as Host Tim Timko

Blue in the Face

as Tommy Finelli

The Usual Suspects

as 1st OTB Man / Tommy

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Touched by an Angel

as Antonio Gaudi

as Cherchez LaFemme

New York Undercover

as Adolfo Guzman

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

as Autobiography Reading (voice)

Bakersfield P.D.

as Detective Paul Gigante

as Paris Minton

as The Reverend Fenton Brunch

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Michael Giardello

as Arthur Sistrunk

as Thomas Hayer

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

as Homeless Man

as Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon

as Attorney Baylor

Mo' Better Blues

as Left Hand Lacey (Piano)

King of New York

Do the Right Thing

as Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves

as Gang Member #1

Maximum Overdrive

as Simon Fernandes

as Simon Fernandes

as Jumpin' Jack

Desperately Seeking Susan

as Street Vendor

Finnegan Begin Again

The Cotton Club

as Adonis Jackson

The Brother from Another Planet

as Man Being Arrested (uncredited)

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

as Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce

The Gentleman Bandit

as Puerto Rican Teenager